Insight Meditation Kit: A Step-by-step Course on How to Meditate - Softcover

Goldstein, Joseph; Salzberg, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564559068 ISBN 13: 9781564559067

Publisher: Sounds True Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The Insight Meditation Kit is an unparalleled immersive course in meditation and philosophy, presented by the cofounders of the Insight Meditation Society, Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein. Cultivate the sacred environment of a retreat in your own home, with the help of a personal instructor. Includes twelve sequential lessons, an 88-page workbook with interactive exercises, and more.

The Insight Meditation Kit is beautifully packaged in a box set and makes a great gift for meditators, whether beginning or experienced.

Workbook Contents

Lesson One: The Power of Mindfulness
Lesson Two: Bare Attention
Lesson Three: Desire and Aversion
Lesson Four: Sleepiness, Restlessness, and Doubt
Lesson Five: Concepts and Reality
Lesson Six: Suffering
Lesson Seven: Karma
Lesson Eight: Equanimity
Lesson Nine: Lovingkindness
Last Words
Appendix A: Meditation Supplies
Appendix B: The Five Hindrances
Appendix C: The Three Great Myths
Appendix D: The Three Kinds of Suffering
Appendix E: The Four Brahma-Viharas
Appendix F: The Six Realms of Existence
Appendix G: The Eight Vicissitudes

CD Contents
Each CD features three guided meditations that will help you explore the direct experience of meditation. The meditations are set up to simulate as closely as possible the ambience of an actual practice session at a retreat center like the Insight Meditation Society.
Meditations include:

1. Breath Meditation
2. Walking Meditation
3. Meditation on Body Sensations
4. Meditation on Hindrances
5. Meditation on Emotions
6. Metta Meditation

Excerpt

Welcome to Insight Meditation. The compact discs and workbook will take you step by step through a comprehensive training course in basic meditation. The cards included in the box list various helpful teachings that are explored throughout this workbook.
This course is rooted in the Buddhist style of vipassana, or insight meditation, but these fundamental techniques for sharpening your awareness and releasing painful mental habits are useful no matter what your religious or spiritual orientation.
It's not necessary to affiliate with any belief system in order to benefit from Insight Meditation. These mindfulness practices can support your existing spiritual path, whether it's a structured practice like Christianity or Judaism, or simply a personal sense of your relationship with the great questions of human existence.
What to Expect:
Insight Meditation comprises two compact discs, a workbook, and a set of informational cards.

The workbook contains:

• Information on meditation resources
• Suggestions for setting up a meditation space and a daily practice
• Buddhist teachings about meditation and life
• Q & A sessions that clarify practical new issues new meditators tend to encounter
• Exercises to help you deepen your understanding and experience of meditation (and space to respond to them)
• Tips for taking your meditative awareness into the world and for troubleshooting problem areas in your practice
• Glossaries of Pali, Sanskrit, and other terms
• A list of books and tapes you can use to further your study of meditation.

About this title

About the Author:

Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg, a student of Buddhism since 1971, has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. Influenced by her more than twenty-five years of study with Burmese, Indian, and Tibetan teachers, she teaches intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas). She is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, both in Massachusetts. Salzberg is the author of several books including The Kindness Handbook, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, A Heart as Wide as the World, and the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness. She has also authored several Sounds True audio and interactive learning kit works including Insight Meditation (with Joseph Goldstein), Unplug, and Lovingkindness Meditation.

Joseph Goldstein

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and the Forest Refuge. Since 1967, he has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma, and Tibet. His books include A Heart Full of Peace, One Dharma, Insight Meditation, and The Experience of Insight.

Synopsis:

Presents the fundamentals of meditating in the Buddhist tradition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sounds True Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1564559068
• ISBN 13: 9781564559067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 229